Gurmehar Kaur, the Delhi University student who shot to limelight last week after her Facebook post taking on the ABVP went viral, has deleted her account on the social media site.
“I just gave my opinion, but things were blown out of proportion after. I had a really bad time. I am not in a state to talk about it anymore. I cannot take it anymore,” she had told on Wednesday.
The controversy erupted on February 21 over an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar which was withdrawn by Delhi's Ramjas College following opposition by the ABVP. The next day violent clashes broke out on Delhi University's north campus between the Left-leaning AISA and the ABVP, a students' body linked to the RSS, with both sides accusing each other of physical and sexual assault.
Kaur was sucked into the row after one of her older social media posts on her father, Captain Mandeep Singh who was killed in Kashmir in 1999 during the Kargil war, and her perceptions about Pakistan and war, surfaced. “Pakistan did not kill my father. War killed him,” read one part of the post.
The 20-year-old alleged she was trolled and had received rape threats. She was panned across the board – from minister Kiren Rijiju and cricketer Virender Sehwag to Oylmpic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt and Haryana minister Anil Vij.
So much so, that Kaur pulled out of a protest march against the ABVP on Tuesday (February 28) and even left Delhi for her hometown Jalandhar.
“The issue on which I spoke was blown out of proportion. I want to make it clear that I do not want to get into politics,” Kaur said while talking to a national daily.
Refusing to talk about her past, a visibly distraught Kaur said the incidents that took place on campus pained her but she had never imagined that the issue would take such an ugly turn.
